The Scarlet Letter -

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Oxford World's Classics

2007

228 páginas

7h 36m

ISBN-1: 0

With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester wears a scarlet "A" upon her breast, the sign of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name, her husband begins his vindictive search for her lover, determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to protect. Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of two very different men, as moral codes and legal imperatives painfully collide.
Set in the Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, The Scarlet Letter also sheds light on the nineteenth century in which it was written, as Hawthorne explores his ambivalent relations with his Puritan forebears. The text of this edition is taken from the Centenary Edition of Hawthorne's works, the most authoritative critical edition.

Resenhas (1)

2.5 (Razoável)

Boring

O enredo tinha muito potencial, mas, infelizmente, a escrita não me agradou.
O autor leva muito tempo com descrições e isso, pessoalmente, me causa tédio.